Kofi Annan dies this morning.
one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80
Former UN Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan has died at age 80, his foundation confirmed Saturday morning.
Annan,
who was born in Ghana in 1938, served as the seventh UN
Secretary-General, from 1997 to 2006, and was the first to rise from
within the ranks of the United Nations staff.
He
had been a member of The Elders, a humanitarian group of a dozen
leaders and activists of worldwide stature formed by Nelson Mandela,
since it was founded in 2007. In 2013, Annan became its chairman.
The Kofi Annan Foundation confirmed his death with "immense sadness" in a statement posted on Twitter.
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